Hyperacuity, superresolution and gap resolution in human stereopsis.
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Different types of stereoscopic acuity were studied with tasks adapted from studies of visual direction acuity. Dynamic, random-element stereograms portraying multiple surfaces in depth and a temporal 2AFC procedure were used for all measurements. The three tasks required detection of a depth offset (Hyperacuity task), a depth-axis thickening (Superresolution task), and a depth-axis gap between surfaces (Gap Resolution task). Thresholds for the three tasks were on the order of 3 sec arc, 30 sec arc and 200 sec arc of retinal disparity, respectively. These results are comparable to those for the analogous visual direction tasks on which they were patterned, suggesting that the underlying judgments involved are similar. Results are used to estimate the intrinsic noise of horizontal disparity processing.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Vision research
دوره 29 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1989